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unior KING’S BUSINESS . . . B y M artha S. H ooker
“ HIM T H A T IS M IGHTY TO SAVE ” B y J ames W orboys
it for my little brother Tom who is a cripple,” The lady’s interest was now fully awak ened, and she handed little Jim the shovel. He worked as hard as his strength would allow, and soon had the path all cleared. A cup of hot tea was waiting for him—and also a big basket packed full of good things for crippled Tom. Some money, too, was pressed into Jim’s hand. What a happy boy he was—Him That Is Mighty To Save had helped 1 With the money, he bought a few coals to warm up their poor little room, then hurried away home to crippled Tom. “Look, Tom, here’s a feast,” he shouted as he opened the door. j“ I told you Him That Is Mighty To Save would help.” “Did you get ’em honest ?” asked crip pled Tom, fearing almost to touch the tempting things. “Yes, them’s honest,” replied little Jim. “ Put your teeth into them good things right away, while I light a fire.” Presently the two boys were enjoying the warm fire and the contents o f the big basket, “ Oh, I wish Father and Mother could en joy some of these good things.” The par ents had been in a drunken stupor for sev eral days. “ I don’t want them to wake up,” said crippled Tom, remembering the cruel treat ment of his father. “Perhaps Him That Is Mighty To Save would help them, too,” said little Jim. So saying, he began to call upon the Lord to help his father and mother. No sooner had he finished praying than the father who had been listening to the conversation of the boys and the prayer, called, “Do you boys think that Him That Is Mighty To Save will help your mother and me to be better?” “Yes, Dad, I’m sure He will—but have something to eat.” As the parents ate the delicious food, little Jim told them the story of how the Lord had helped them in a time of need. He then pleaded with his parents to turn to Jesus for help, and followed it up by pray ing in his simple way unto Him That Is Mighty To Save to save his dear parents. And that prayer was answered. The fa ther and mother received the Lord Jesus as their own Saviour, and became new creatures in Christ Jesus—and Him That Is Mighty To Save became the Head of their house. Ships Make a list o f the words pertaining to ships, found in the following verses: 1. Hebrews 6 :19. 2. Acts, chapter 27. 3. Psalm 95 :5. 4. James 3 :4. 5. Proverbs 23:34. 6. Mark 6:47, 48. 7. Psalm 107: 23, 8. Psalm 96:11. 9. Psalm 98:7. 10. Psalm 104:25, 26. 11. Proverbs 8:27. 12. Mark 4:36, 37. Memory Work Luke 1 :37 Luke 2 :29-32 Luke 2 :10, 11 or Luke 2 :8-20
ittle Jim and Tom were children of drunken parents. Little Tom was .a cripple, and the sad part was that his crip pled condition was due to his father’s treat ment o f him one time while he was drunk. Poor little T om ! His young life had been filled with suffering. The family were very poor. The tiny bit o f money they had was spent by the par ents on the dreadful stuff that robbed them of every comfort. They all lived in one bare room. The winter was a very cold one snow was on everything and made the whole world lodk white. The biting cold was especially hard for the children to bear. They crept close together. Crippled Tom began to cry. Little Jim tried to comfort him, but there was not much he could say. He, too, was so cold and hungry. And then he remembered something he had learned at the mission school. They had told him there of “One who is mighty to save.” So kneeling down in one corner of the room, little Jim called on Him That Is Mighty To Save to help them now. On waking in the morning, his first words to crippled Tom were, “Him That Is Mighty To Save will help us. Don’t cry any more, I’m going out to get some thing for you to eat.” In an instant he was away and out on the street. The ground was thick with snow, and the wind made him shiver. He ran along the snow-covered foot paths try ing to keep a,bit warm. He had not gone far when the door o f a house opened, and Jim heard a lady say, “Oh, dear, how thick the snow is—we will never get down the path!”
A Mother, A Boy, and A Bible B y C ecelia H unter A fine vessel was once sailing away to far-off lands. On this particular trip, the captain was taken suddenly ill. He called the mate to him and said, “ Take control, I must go to my cabin.” He giew rapidly worse and sent for the mate again, saying, “I am sure I am going to die, and I am so afraid.” ;/ ,, The mate tried to cheer him up by tell ing him that a night’s rest would do him good and make him feel like a new,man. But the next day he was worse than even the day before, and said to the mate, “I am now quite sure that I cannot live long, and I am more frightened than ever. Perhaps, though, if you could bring me a Bible, it would tell me how to get ready to die. I have heard that the Bible is the Book that tells the way to heaven—please, have you one?” “ No,” said the mate. “Go, then, and borrow one from some of the men,” said the captain. So the mate went from one man to the other, asking for a Bible for the captain, but he found none. Soon the mate returned to the sick cap tain and sorrowfully told him that there was not a Bible on board. This news made the captain feel desperate, and he said to the mate, “Have you asked every person on the ship?” “Well,” said the mate, “all but the cabin boy.” “ Go at once, then, and ask the cabin boy,” urged the captain. The cabin boy was located-—and, yes, he had a Bible which he gladly lent to the captain. O f course the captain wag de lighted to have the Bible, but when the mate returned to see him later, he found the poor captain more miserable than be fore. “ I can’t find anything here to comfort me —send for the cabin boy,” he said. When the cabin boy came, the captain said, “ Can you find anything here to help me?” “Well,” said the boy, “ when my mother gave the Bible to me, she asked me to read a certain verse for myself. I read it, be lieved it, and it brought me perfect peace.” “What is it?” asked the captain eagerly. “Do read it to me.” So the cabin boy turned to Isaiah 53, verse 5. “ Shall I read it the way my mother taught me?” he asked. “ Oh, yes,” replied the captain. So the boy read: “ But he was wound-
“I’ll shovel the snow away for you, Miss,” little Jim called to her. “ But you couldn’t shovel away the snow,” the lady replied. “ You are too little.” “Do let me try,” said little Jim. “Him That Is Mighty To Save will help me.” Touched by the child’s reply, she said, “ Come on, then, and try, but first come in and have something warm to eat—you do look so cold.” “No, Mum, I want to get the work done first, and if there’s anything to eat I want
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